Re: [Hampshire] [OT] 6P6C Connector

On 12/09/2007, Peter Brooks <peter@???> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Just hacking open some existing cabling I have around my house, I put
> Cat6 into the walls years ago and now have need to use some two
> ununsed wires in the connector to send a phone line.
> I'm going to create a new cat5 cable with the four data termination
> still in place and take two for phone, however I'm just confirming
> what tool to buy for terminating phone line leads for plugging into my
> fax machine & bt home hub (parents home, hence the terrible ISP but
> the alure of the home hub had my parents switch from zen)
>
> As I understand it the connections are called 6P6C, and the
> connections on both the home hub and the fax machine are six
> connectors, if that's correct then great and I'll get a 'Plas FCC68
> Crimper 6P6C', I've heard it however called RJ11, RJ12 and RJ25.
>
> Can someone please just clarify what connection it is actually called?
>
> Cheers
>

Note: If you use Gig Ethernet, it actually uses all the pairs in the
cable. Not just 2 pairs.